Solely Quotes
505 quotes by 429 authors
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that…
— Teresa of Avila
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
— Irving Babbitt
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be…
— Russell Baker
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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
— Martha Beck
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional…
— Ken Blanchard
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Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
— Andrea Bocelli
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Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.
— Christina Aguilera
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most…
— Dan Brown
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Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through…
— Julie Burchill
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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
— Truman Capote
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
— Dale Carnegie
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God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.
— Johnny Cash
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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
— John Jay Chapman
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I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.
— William J. Clinton
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of…
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things…
— Carl Jung
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to…
— Albert Einstein
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[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to…
— Morris Kline
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